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Roy Orbison: In Dreams

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2025/11/23

One-hour music intensive documentary presents rock music legend, Roy Orbison, through his own words and music, and comments by artists inspired by his legacy. Interview subjects include Roy Orbison, himself, recorded throughout his career, Chet Atkins, Bruce Springsteen, Don Was, Jeff Lynne, Barry, Maurice & Robin Gibb, former Monument Records president Fred Foster, and others.

Elvis: The Early Years

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2025/11/23

Elvis grows from his childhood in Tupelo and Memphis to become, at various times, the King of Rock & Roll, a threat to America's moral fiber, an honorable soldier serving his country, and one of Hollywood's biggest film stars. Close friends (Jerry Schilling, Patty Parry) and historians (Pete Guralnick, Ernst Jorgensen) detail his earliest influences, struggles and successes on his path to stardom alongside Elvis' own words and some of his best known recordings. As his popularity grew, he

Afternoon Drama - The Queen of Spades (1997)

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2025/11/21

The 1997 BBC radio adaptation of "The Queen of Spades" was a 90-minute drama based on Alexander Pushkin's famous short story. This version aired as part of BBC Radio 4’s Afternoon Drama series and featured Greg Wise and Amanda Root in leading roles. The adaptation was written by Michelene Wandor, who is known for her radio plays and dramatizations of classic literature.This production is distinct from opera or other adaptations and is a dramatized version specifically created for BBC radio,

The Lux Radio Theatre. November 04, 1945. CBS net....

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2025/11/03

The classic western story about a strange lawman and his unusual methods. Jimmy Stewart, Joan Blondell.William Keighley (host), John Milton Kennedy (announcer), Thomas Hanlon (second announcer), Louis Silvers (music director), Frances Robinson, Leo Cleary, Ken Christy, Noreen Gammill, Tommy Cook, Charles Seel (doubles), Dorothy Scott, Joseph Du Val, Ruby Dandridge, Tyler McVey (doubles), Franklyn Parker (doubles), Doris Singleton (singing voice for Joan Blondell, commercial spokesman: as "Libby"),

Academy Award Theatre. July 10, 1946. CBS net. "Young...

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2025/11/03

Two brothers are accused of murder, but which one did the deed? A new attorney, Mr. Lincoln, handles the case. Henry Fonda, Ward Bond, Jeff Chandler, Frank Wilson (writer), Leith Stevens (composer, conductor), Dee Englebach (producer, director), Hugh Brundage (announcer).

Hollywood Star Time. March 10, 1946. CBS net. "The...

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2025/11/03

After the death of his outlaw brother, Jesse, Frank James seeks revenge on his killers. Henry Fonda, Wendell Niles (announcer), Burl Ives (ballad singer), Lurene Tuttle, Ernest Whitman, Joseph Kearns, Conrad Binyon, Milton Geiger (adaptor), Alfred Newman (music supervisor), Robert L. Redd (director).

Lux Radio Theatre. March 12, 1951 "She Wore A Yellow...

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2025/08/19

John Wayne, Mel Ferrer, Mala Powers, Barton Yarborough, William Johnstone, George Neise, Wally Maher, Norman Field, Dan Riss, Paul Dubov, Edward MarrCaptain Nathan Brittles, on the eve of retirement, takes out a last patrol to stop an impending massive Indian attack.

Lux Radio Theatre. March 07, 1949. "Red River"

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2025/08/19

A tough man makes the first cattle drive with a 10,000 head herd, over the Chisholm Trail. Walter Brennan, Jeff Chandler, William Keighley (host), John Milton Kennedy (announcer), John Wayne, Joanne Dru, Sanford Barnett (adaptor), Charlie Forsyth (sound effects), Fred MacKaye (director).

Lux Radio Theatre. April 18, 1949. "The Treasure Of...

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2025/08/19

A story of gold and greed in the mountains of Mexico. The last commercial has been deleted. Humphrey Bogart, Walter Huston, Frank Lovejoy, William Keighley (host), John Milton

Journey To The Centre Of The Earth By Jules Verne

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2025/08/19

Jules Verne's classic adventure, dramatised by Steve Walker Lidenbrok, a Hamburg geologist, decodes runes which tell of a passage to the centre of the Earth.

Rough Cider By Peter Lovesey

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2025/08/19

In Peter Lovesey's thriller set in the 60's, a lecturer is forced to re-live his childhood memories of a gruesome murder. Did he contribute to a miscarriage of justice? Dramatised by Michael Z Lewin

Roses Have Thorns By Ivor Wilson

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2025/08/19

Frank Carter is taking early retirement from teaching. In theory, he's glad to go; in practice, he was good and very popular and he liked being both.

The Trial by Peter Whalley

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2025/08/19

Falling in love with a stranger has never been scarier: A gripping new thriller. Vibrant, young, attractive, Mollie Spiers, signs up to internet dating. When the man she arranges to meet looks suspicious she spontaneously sits next to another man, Colin, and hurriedly asks him to pretend they're on a date. Molly and Colin fall for each other and what seems like serendipity turns into a chilling thriller. As Mollie falls headlong in love Colin is arrested on a murder charge. As we inter-cut between

A Capital Case – Karl Marx Meets Sherlock Holmes

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2025/06/11

Sherlock Holmes has never been able to resist a challenge so when Karl Marx turns up asking him to find his ‘kidnapped’ revolutionary tract Das Kapital, he agrees.

Sexton Blake 01 – Lilies For The Ladies

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2025/04/26

The history of crime detection has produced no more famous name than that of SEXTON BLAKE…’In ‘Lilies for the Ladies’: In the first episode of the series, Blake investigates the unexplained murders of four wealthy society women.

Lux Radio Theater November 05, 1945 "Destry Rides Again"

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2025/04/24

The classic western story about a strange lawman and his unusual methods. Jimmy Stewart, Joan Blondell.

The Cavalcade Of America March 31, 1947 "Kansas...

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2025/04/23

The story of Wyatt Earp, Marshall of Wichita Kansas, a town that needed cleaning up. The script was based on the 1939 film, the broadcast originates from Hollywood. Henry Fonda, Robert Armbruster (composer, conductor), Stewart M. Lake (author), Maurice Robinson (adaptor), Russell Hughes (author), Ozie Waters, John McIntire, Herb Butterfield, Jerry Hausner, Horace Murphy, Bud Hiestand (announcer), Jack Zoller (producer, director).

Screen Directors' Assignment 01- 09- 49 Stagecoach

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2025/04/23

The classic story based on the movie about The Ringo Kid, The Plummer Boys, and The Apaches. The series is also refered to as, "Screen Director's Playhouse" and "NBC Theatre.". John Wayne; John Ford (guest screen director); Ernest Haycox (author of the original story and screenplay); Milton Geiger (adaptor); Dudley Nichols (author of the story and original screenplay); Claire Trevor; Ford Bond

Screen Director's Playhouse 51-09-07 Broken Arrow

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2025/04/23

Broken Arrow from Screen Director's Playhouse aired September 7, 1951. Starring in their original roles is James Stewart as Tom Jeffords, Jeff Chandler as Cochise and Debra Paget as Sonseeahray (Morningstar). Broken Arrow is the story of a land, of the people who lived on it in the year 1870, and of a man whose name was Cochise. He was an Indian leader of the Chiricahua Apache tribe. The performances of James Stewart, Jeff Chandler and Debra Paget are outstanding and Broken Arrow is one of the first

Devil in a Blue Dress - Walter Mosley Mystery Easy...

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2025/04/04

Walter Mosley's thriller, featuring private detective Easy Rawlins. Read by Paul WinfieldSet in 1948, the story begins in the Watts area of Los Angeles, with Ezekiel "Easy" Rawlins, a Houstonian — from that city's Fifth Ward — who lost his job at an aviation defense plant in Los Angeles and is unable to pay the mortgage on his LA home. Easy is sitting in a bar run by Joppy, a friend who is also from Houston, when a man named DeWitt Albright walks into the bar and offers him a job finding a young

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